DAST 1560 - Clinical Chairside II
Credit hours: 4
Lecture: 45 contact hours
Laboratory: 30-45 contact hours
Prerequisites: Acceptance into the Dental Assisting Program, DAST 1530 Clinical Chairside I
Course Description:
A continuation of Clinical Chairside I with emphasis on the dental assistant in specialty areas of dentistry. This course will provide information to familiarize the student with instruments and procedures utilized in each specialty.
Student Learning Outcomes:
To provide the students with training in chairside assisting and skills used in the specialties of dentistry needed in a dental assisting career. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to recall the different specialty procedures and demonstrate the necessary skills needed in a dental assisting career.
Students will be able to:
- Define each area of specialty within general dentistry
- Select appropriate tax strategies
- Recall, the rationale, indications, and contraindications behind each specialty treatment
- Describe and demonstrate the steps involved in each specialty treatment procedure
- Identify and List uses for instruments in the specialty treatment procedure
- Prepare Preset Trays for a variety of specialty procedures
- Identify, manipulate, and describe uses for materials used in a variety of specialty procedures
- Demonstrate proficiency in achievement and maintenance of personal cleanliness and asepsis throughout certain specialty procedures according to set standards
- Recite post-operative instruction for patients in the following areas:
- Anesthesia
- Restorative Care
- Surgical Care
- Prosthetic Instruction
- Define the duties of expanded functions of dental assisting in each specialty
- Demonstrate ability to perform expanded function allowed by Tennessee law
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